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From the Poetry Society of America
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- January 19 - For the first time since 19491949 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...
, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe ToasterPoe ToasterThe Poe Toaster is an unofficial nickname given to a mysterious person who, from approximately 1949 until 2009, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the stone marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday...
, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
at the Westminster Hall and Burying GroundWestminster Hall and Burying GroundThe Westminster Hall and Burying Ground is a graveyard and former church located at 519 West Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Occupying the southeast corner of Fayette and Greene Street on the west side of downtown Baltimore, the site is probably most famous as the burial site...
, early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance. - March 27 - The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, designed to become the largest databaseDatabaseA database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
of women poets in the world, was launched in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
at the National Museum of Women in the ArtsNational Museum of Women in the ArtsThe National Museum of Women in the Arts , located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay...
. The database will feature biographical information about female poets, as well as photos of them and, when possible, reprints of their work. - April 12 - Rae ArmantroutRae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry2010 Pulitzer PrizeThe 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday, April 12, 2010. In journalism, The Washington Post won four awards while The New York Times won three. For the first time, an online source, ProPublica, won in what had previously been the sole province of print. A musical, Next to Normal, won the...
for her collection VersedVersedVersed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.-Awards:...
. "Having also won the National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Critics Circle AwardThe National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
, after being named a finalist for the National Book AwardNational Book Award for PoetryThe National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...
, Armantrout is only the third poet to win two out of the three awards in one year." - May 1 - David BiespielDavid BiespielDavid Biespiel is an American poet who was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raised in Houston, Texas, and educated at Stanford University, University of Maryland, and Boston University...
, writing in PoetryPoetry (magazine)Poetry , published in Chicago, Illinois since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Christian Wiman, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000 and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately...
, suggests (in an essay titled "This Land Is Our Land") that the insularity of America's poets has left them with a minimal presence in American civic discourse and a minuscule public role in the life of American democracy. - November 26 - Japanese government honors Canadian poetCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
Joy KogawaJoy KogawaJoy Nozomi Kogawa, CM, OBC is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.-Life:Born Joy Nozomi Nakayama in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was sent with her family to the internment camp for Japanese Canadians at Slocan during World War II...
with the Order of the Rising SunOrder of the Rising SunThe is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese Government, created on April 10, 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun...
"for her contribution to the understanding and preservation of Japanese Canadian history."
Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:Australia
- Adam Robertson, editor, Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Inc., anthology with works by
- Ali AlizadehAli AlizadehAli Alizadeh is an Iranian football player.Alizadeh has played for Fajr and Persepolis, before joining Esteghlal. He is well known for his long throw-ins which are often thrown more than 30 metres, passing by the front of the opponent goal....
, - Chris Andrews,
- Meera Atkinson,
- Luke Beesley,
- Judith BeveridgeJudith BeveridgeJudith Beveridge is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.-Biography:Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration...
, - Judith BishopJudith BishopJudith Bishop is a contemporary Australian poet, linguist and translator.-Biography:Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. She holds a DPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. In 1994 she received the Rae and Edith Bennett...
, - Ken BoltonKen BoltonKen Bolton is an Australian poet and art critic.Bolton was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four...
, - Peter BoylePeter BoylePeter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein ....
, - Michael BrennanMichael Brennan (poet)Michael Brennan, born in Sydney in 1973, is an Australian poet based in Tokyo.His first volume of poetry, The Imageless World, won the Mary Gilmore Award...
, - David BrooksDavid Brooks (author)David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...
, - Jen Jewel Brown,
- Pam BrownPam BrownPam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...
, - Allison Browning,
- Joanne BurnsJoanne BurnsJoanne Burns is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.-Biography:...
, - Elizabeth CampbellElizabeth CampbellElizabeth Pfohl Campbell was one of the first and most prominent public television pioneers in the United States...
, - Bonny Cassidy,
- Eileen ChongEileen ChongEileen Chong is a contemporary Australian poet.- Biography :Eileen Chong was born in 1980 in Singapore. She majored in Linguistics and Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and obtained her Diploma in Education at National Institute of Education, Singapore...
, - Justin ClemensJustin ClemensJustin Clemens is an Australian philosopher, translator, social critic, and poet. He is primarily known today for his work on Alain Badiou as an editor, translator, and scholar writing, speaking, and lecturing on the impact of Badiou's thought in this contemporary juncture.A former instructor in...
, - Stuart Cooke,
- Nathan Curnow,
- Luke DaviesLuke DaviesLuke Davies is an Australian writer of novels, poetry and screenplays, born in Sydney in 1962.Davies' first poetry collection, Four Plots for Magnets, was published in 1982, when he was twenty....
, - Bruce DaweBruce DaweDonald Bruce Dawe AO is an Australian poet, and is considered by many as one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.-Early life:...
,
- Tricia Dearborn,
- B. R. DionysiusB. R. DionysiusB. R. Dionysius is an Australian poet, editor, arts administrator and educator.B. R. Dionysius was born in Dalby, Queensland. He was the chairperson of Fringe Arts Collective Inc from 1994 to 2001; directed the Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival from 1993 to 1996, and directed the Subverse:...
, - Lucy Dougan,
- Laurie DugganLaurie DugganLaurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
, - Will Eaves,
- Ali Cobby Eckermann,
- Stephen EdgarStephen EdgarStephen Edgar is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and indexer.-Background and education:Edgar was born in Sydney in 1951 where he attended Sydney Technical High School. Between 1971 and 1974 he lived in London and worked as a library assistant in the London Borough of Lambeth...
, - Chris Edwards,
- Anne Elvey,
- Brook Emery,
- Kate Fagan,
- Mike FarrellMichael Farrell (poet)-Biography:Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales in 1965. He presently lives in Melbourne, where he is the Australian editor of Slope magazine.-Awards:* Harri Jones Memorial Prize, 1999: winner...
, - Susan Fealy,
- Liam FerneyLiam FerneyLiam Ferney is a Brisbane poet whose work has been published widely in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. His first collection of poetry, Popular Mechanics , was published in 2004....
, - S.J. Finn,
- Lionel FogartyLionel FogartyLionel Fogarty is an Indigenous Australian poet and political activist.He was born in 1958 at Barambah in Queensland where he grew up. He has been involved in Aboriginal activism from his teenage years, mainly in Southern Queensland on issues such as Land Rights, Aboriginal health and deaths in...
, - Adam Ford,
- Adam Formosa,
- Angela Gardner,
- Claire Gaskin,
- Jane Gibian,
- Keri Glastonbury,
- Lisa Gorton,
- Robert GrayRobert Gray (poet)Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...
, - Martin HarrisonMartin HarrisonMartin Allen Harrison is a former American football defensive end who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the University of Washington...
, - Kevin Hart,
- Matt Hetherington,
- Barry HillBarry Hill (writer)Barry Hill is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts , Bachelor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts ...
, - Sarah Holland Batt,
- L. K. Holt,
- Duncan Hose,
- Lisa Jacobson,
- Carol Jenkins,
- A. Frances Johnson,
- Jill JonesJill JonesJill Jones is an American singer and songwriter, who was a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s.-Biography:...
, - Frank Kellaway,
- Peter Kenneally,
- Graeme Kinross-Smith,
- John Kinsella,
- Andy KissaneAndy KissaneAndy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Red Earth Poetry Award, the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the John Shaw Neilson Award, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and...
, - Anna Krien,
- Mike LaddMike Ladd (poet)Mike Ladd is an Australian poet and radio presenter.Mike Ladd was born in Berkeley, California while his Australian parents were living and working in America, but he returned to Australia when he was one year old, and grew up in the Adelaide Hills...
, - Martin Langford,
- Anthony LawrenceAnthony Lawrence-Biography:Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Anthony Lawrence left school at 16, and has worked variously as a jackeroo, fisherman, teacher and writer. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants and has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the...
,
- Michelle Leber,
- Geoffrey LehmannGeoffrey lehmannGeoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively...
, - Kate LilleyKate Lilley-Early life:Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley....
, - Debbie Lim,
- Astrid Lorange,
- Cameron Lowe,
- Roberta Lowing,
- Anthony LynchAnthony LynchAnthony Lynch is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Naomh Abán and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 1999.-Club:...
, - Jennifer MaidenJennifer MaidenJennifer Maiden is a contemporary Australian poet.Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales. She began publishing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s...
, - Rhyll McMasterRhyll McMasterRhyll McMaster is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000....
, - Kate Middleton,
- Peter Minter,
- Anne MorganAnne Morgan (author)Anne Morgan is an Australian children's author-Biography:Anne Morgan is an Australian writer of children’s books and poetry.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she has taught in remote locations in the Northern Territory...
, - Derek Motion,
- Les MurrayLes Murray (poet)Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
, - Jenni Nixon,
- Nguyen Tien Hoang,
- Geoff PageGeoff PageGeoffrey Donald Page is an Australian poet, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast.He has published over seventeen collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he has also written a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann...
, - Pi.0,
- Claire Potter,
- Peter Rose,
- Josephine Rowe,
- Robyn Rowland,
- Brendan Ryan,
- Gig RyanGig RyanGig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan...
, - Thomas Shapcott,
- Craig Sherborn,
- Andrew Slattery,
- Vivian SmithVivian SmithVivian Brian Smith is an Australian poet. He is considered one of the most lyrical and observant Australian poets of his generation....
, - Peter SteelePeter SteelePeter Thomas Ratajczyk , better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative...
, - James Stuart,
- Maria TakolanderMaria TakolanderMaria Takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian poet and literary critic. She is a lecturer at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, in the areas of Literary Studies and Professional and Creative Writing. She has published many poems in literary journals, and her work has frequently...
, - Hugh Tolhurst,
- John TranterJohn TranterJohn Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
, - Mark Tredinnick,
- Louise Wakeling,
- Chris Wallace-CrabbeChris Wallace-CrabbeChris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...
, - Meredith Wattison,
- Petra WhitePetra WhitePetra White is an Australian poet. Petra was born in Adelaide in 1975, the eldest of six children, and now lives in Melbourne, where she works, for the moment, as a public servant...
, - Chloe Wilson,
- Ouyang YuOuyang YuOuyang Yu is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic.Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. Since then his literary output has been prodigious...
- Grant Caldwell, glass clouds, Five Islands Press
- Les MurrayLes Murray (poet)Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
, Taller When Prone, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-470-9 - Dorothy PorterDorothy PorterDorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...
, Love Poems, Black Inc., ISBN 978-1-86395-492-1 - Ron Pretty, Postcards From the Centre
- Thomas Shapcott, Parts of Us, University of Queensland Press
- John TranterJohn TranterJohn Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
, Starlight: 150 Poems, University of Queensland PressUniversity of Queensland PressEstablished in 1948, University of Queensland Press is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance...
CanadaCanadian literatureCanadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...
- Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101Catullus 101Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to the "mute ashes" which are the only remaining evidence of his brother's body....
; Canadian published in the United States - Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-230-1
- Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Rhapsodomancy, Toronto: Coach House Press, ISBN 978-1-55245-231-8
- Kenneth LeslieKenneth LeslieKenneth Leslie was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest , which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers...
, The Essential Kenneth Leslie. [Ed. Zachariah Wells] Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2010. ISBN 0889843287, ISBN 9780889843288 - A. F. Mortiz, editor, The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2010, work by the winners of the Griffin Poetry PrizeGriffin Poetry PrizeThe Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
, House of Anansi Press, 112 pages, ISBN 978-0-88784-955-8 - James ReaneyJames ReaneyJames Crerar Reaney was an influential Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."...
, A Suit of Nettles. Porcupine's Quill. - Lisa RobertsonLisa RobertsonLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.-Life:...
, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a Canadian poet living in and published in the United States - Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, Canadian author published in the United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
IndiaIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, in EnglishIndian Poetry in EnglishHenry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...
- Arun Kamal, Naye Ilake Mein, translated from the original Hindi into English by Giriraj Kiradoo, New DelhiNew DelhiNew Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
: Sahitya AkademiSahitya AkademiThe Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
2010. - J. T. Jayasingh, editor, New Voices, anthology; Thiruvananthapuram: Roots and Wings
- Tabish KhairTabish KhairTabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark...
, Man of Glass ( Poetry in EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
)., New Delhi: Harper Collins, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
2010. ISBN 81-7223-979-3 - Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Robin NgangomRobin NgangomRobin S Ngangom is an Indian poet and translator from Manipur, North Eastern India.-Biography:Robin Singh Ngangom was born in Imphal, Manipur of North Eastern India. He is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Manipuri. He studied literature at St Edmund's College and the North Eastern Hill...
, editors, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India - Srinivas Sistla, Amuktamalyada, translated from the original TeluguTelugu poetryTelugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
of Krishna Deva Raya's classic epic; Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh: Drusya Kala Deepika - Anindita Sengupta, "City of Water" ( Poetry in EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
)., BangaloreBangaloreBengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
: Sahitya AkademiSahitya AkademiThe Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
2010.
IrelandIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
- Anthony CroninAnthony CroninAnthony Cronin is an Irish poet. He received the Marten Toonder Award for his contribution to Irish literature....
, The Fall, 120 pages, New Island Press, ISBN 978-1-84840-068-9 - Theo DorganTheo DorganTheo Dorgan is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He currently lives in Dublin.- Career :Dorgan's poetry collections are The Ordinary House of Love ; Rosa Mundi; and Sappho’s Daughter...
, Greek, Dedalus Press, ISBN 978-1-906614-17-1 - Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
, Human ChainHuman Chain (poetry)Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...
, 85 pages, Faber & Faber - Thomas KilroyThomas KilroyThomas F. Kilroy is an Irish playwright and novelist.He was born in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny and studied at University College, Dublin. In his early career he was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin...
, Christ, Deliver Us, Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Press - Alan Moore How Now! Anvil Press PoetryAnvil Press PoetryAnvil Press Poetry is an independent poetry publisher based in Greenwich, south-east London. It was founded in 1968 by Peter Jay and specialises in contemporary English poets, with a leavening of Irish and American, and in a range of translated poetry, from ancient classics to modern and...
, ISBN 978-0-85646-432-4 - Paul MuldoonPaul MuldoonPaul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and...
, Maggot - Micheal O'SiadhailMicheal O'SiadhailMicheal O'Siadhail is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature.-Early life:Micheal O'Siadhail was born into a middle class Dublin family...
, Tongue, Irish poet published in the United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
, Bloodaxe Books
United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Fleur AdcockFleur AdcockKareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
, Dragon Talk, Bloodaxe Books - Jill BialoskyJill BialoskyJill Bialosky is an American poet, book editor, and novelist.She studied at Ohio University and received an M.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She is the author of the poetry collections, The End of Desire, Subterranean, and ...
, The Skiers: Selected Poems, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-904614-93-7 - Matthew Caley, Apparently, Bloodaxe Books
- Stewart ConnStewart ConnStewart Conn is a Scottish poet and playwright, born in Hillhead, Glasgow . His father was a minister Kelvinside Church but the family moved to Kilmarnock, Ayrshire in 1941 when he was five. During the 60s and 70s he worked for the BBC at their offices off Queen Margaret Drive and moved to...
, The Breakfast Room, Bloodaxe Books - Razmic Davoyan, Whispers and Breath of the Meadows, translated from the original Armenian by Armine Tamrazian, introduction by W. N. HerbertW. N. HerbertW. N. Herbert, also known as Bill Herbert is a poet from Dundee, Scotland. He writes in both English and Scots. He and Richard Price founded the poetry magazine Gairfish. Educated at Brasenose College he currently teaches at Newcastle University...
, 172 pages, ISBN 9781904614470 - Katie Donovan, Rootling, Bloodaxe Books
- Carol Ann DuffyCarol Ann DuffyCarol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...
, Love Poems, a selection, 84 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51271-8 - Bernardine EvaristoBernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo MBE FRSL FRSA is a British author.She was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian Father and was raised in Woolwich, south east London.-Work:Evaristo is the author of six books that include:...
& Daljit NagraDaljit NagraDaljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...
. editors, Ten: New poets from Spread the Word, an anthology, with work by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Rowyda Amin, Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Karen McCarthy, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul, Seni Seniviratne, Shazea Quraishi and Janet Kofi Tsekpo; Bloodaxe Books - Ruth FainlightRuth FainlightRuth Fainlight , is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.-Life and career:Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She studied for two years at the Birmingham and Brighton...
, New & Collected Poems, Bloodaxe Books - Sylva Fischerová, The Swing in the Middle of Chaos, translated by Stuart Friebert and Sylva Fischerova from the original Czech; Bloodaxe Books
- Roy FisherRoy FisherRoy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham...
, Standard Midland, Bloodaxe Books - Cheryl Follon, Dirty Looks, Bloodaxe Books
- Miriam Gamble, The Squirrels Are Dead, Bloodaxe Books
- Bill GriffithsBill GriffithsBill Griffiths was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Overview:...
, Collected Earlier Poems (1966 – 80), Reality Street, Sussex - Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
, Human ChainHuman Chain (poetry)Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...
, Faber and Faber - Tony HoaglandTony HoaglandAnthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...
, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Bloodaxe Books - Helen IvoryHelen IvoryHelen Ivory is an English poet, tutor and editor.She was born in Luton but has lived in Norwich since 1990. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors....
, The Breakfast Machine, Bloodaxe Books - Arun KolatkarArun KolatkarArun Balkrishna Kolatkar was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets...
, Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna MehrotraArvind Krishna MehrotraArvind Krishna Mehrotra is a noted Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.- Biography :Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore 1947. He has published four collections of poetry in English and one of translation...
, MarathiMarathi poetry-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
- and English-language poet of IndiaIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books; posthumous (died 20042004 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...
) - Gwyneth LewisGwyneth LewisGwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....
, A Hospital Odyssey, Bloodaxe Books - Kona Macphee, Perfect Blue, Bloodaxe Books
- Harry MartinsonHarry MartinsonHarry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson. The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson was very controversial as both were on the...
, Chickweed Wintergreen,translated from the original Swedish by Robin FultonRobin FultonRobin Fulton , is a Scottish poet and translator. He has lived in Stavanger, Norway, since 1973 working as a university lecturer- Fulton holds a PhD from Edinburgh University....
, Bloodaxe Books - Grace NicholsGrace NicholsGrace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. She was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950. After working in Guyana as a teacher and journalist, she emigrated to the UK in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.Her first...
, I Have Crossed an Ocean, Bloodaxe Books - Micheal O'SiadhailMicheal O'SiadhailMicheal O'Siadhail is an Irish poet. Among his awards are The Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature.-Early life:Micheal O'Siadhail was born into a middle class Dublin family...
, Tongue, IrishIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
poet published in the United Kingdom, Bloodaxe Books - Don PatersonDon PatersonDon Paterson, OBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.-Background:Paterson was born in Dundee. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem A Private Bottling won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the...
, Rain, Faber & Faber - Mario Petrucci, i tulips, Enitharmon Press, 112, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-93-5
- Ralph Pordzik, Hotel Salvador Dali and Other Poems, Lulu Press, 49 pages, ISBN 978-1-4457-2224-5
- Peter ReadingPeter ReadingPeter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical"...
, Vendage Tardive, Bloodaxe Books - Robin RobertsonRobin RobertsonRobin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...
, The Wrecking Light, 112 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1 - Anna Robinson, The Finders of London, Enitharmon Press, 64, pages, ISBN 978-1-904634-94-2
- Lawrence SailLawrence Sail-Biography:Sail was born in London and brought up in Exeter. He studied French and German at Oxford University and subsequently taught for some years in Kenya, before returning to the UK, where he taught at Blundell's School and, later, Exeter School...
, Waking Dreams, Bloodaxe Books - Penelope ShuttlePenelope Shuttle-Life:Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe...
, Sandgrain and Hourglass, Bloodaxe Books - Louis SimpsonLouis SimpsonLouis Aston Marantz Simpson is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.-Life:...
, Voices in the Distance, Bloodaxe Books - John StammersJohn Stammers-Life:Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. He took up writing poetry in his 40s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London and City Lit. In 2002/03 he was appointed...
, Interior Night, 64 pages, Picador, ISBN 978-0-330-51338-8 - Pia TafdrupPia TafdrupPia Tafdrup is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio....
, Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems, translated by David McDuffDavid McDuffDavid McDuff is a British translator, editor and literary critic.He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied Russian and German...
from the original Danish; Bloodaxe Books - Marina TsvetaevaMarina TsvetaevaMarina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from...
, Art in the Light of Conscience, translated by Angela Livingstone from the original Russian; Bloodaxe Books - Brian TurnerBrian Turner (American poet)Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War...
, Phantom Noise, Bloodaxe Books - Chase TwichellChase TwichellChase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....
, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, Bloodaxe Books - Priscila Uppal, Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 192 pages, ISBN 978-1-85224-860-4, CanadianCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
author published in the United Kingdom
Anthologies in the United Kingdom
- Anthony Astbury, editor, A Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975-2010, Carcanet Press, ISBN 978-1-84777-050-9
- Roddy LumsdenRoddy LumsdenRoddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...
, editor, Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets, anthology; Bloodaxe Books
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- Poets included: Patience AgbabiPatience AgbabiPatience Agbabi is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word. Although her poetry is hard-hitting in addressing contemporary themes, her work often makes use of strong formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms...
, Jonathan Asser, Tiffany Atkinson, Simon Barraclough, Paul Batchelor, Kate Bingham, Julia Bird, Patrick Brandon, David Briggs, Andy Brown, Judy Brown, Colette BryceColette BryceColette Bryce is a critically acclaimed poet from Derry, Northern Ireland. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland, followed by a move to the North East of England in 2005...
, Matthew Caley, Siobhan Campbell, Vahni CapildeoVahni CapildeoSurya Vahni Priya Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family which has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers ....
, Melanie Challenger, Kate ClanchyKate Clanchy-Life:She was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford University. She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxfordshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer....
, Polly Clark, Julia CopusJulia CopusJulia Copus is a British poet and radio dramatist.-Career:Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye , which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery...
, Sarah Corbett, Claire Crowther, Tim Cumming, Ailbhe Darcy, Peter Davidson, Nick Drake, Sasha Dugdale, Chris EmeryChris EmeryChris Emery also known as Chris Hamilton-Emery born in Manchester, England, on November 23, 1963 is a British poet and literary publisher.- Biography :...
, Bernardine EvaristoBernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo MBE FRSL FRSA is a British author.She was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian Father and was raised in Woolwich, south east London.-Work:Evaristo is the author of six books that include:...
, Paul FarleyPaul FarleyPaul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria...
, Leontia FlynnLeontia FlynnLeontia Flynn is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve...
, Annie Freud, Alan Gillis, Jane GriffithsJane Griffiths (poet)-Career and writings:Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize for her poem "The House"...
, Vona GroarkeVona GroarkeVona Groarke is an Irish poet.Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork...
, Jen HadfieldJen HadfieldJen Hadfield is an English poet and artist.She won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place...
, Sophie HannahSophie HannahSophie Hannah is an English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford...
, Tracey Herd, Kevin Higgins, Matthew Hollis, A. B. JacksonA. B. JacksonThe Scottish poet Andrew Buchanan Jackson was born on 19 June 1965, in Glasgow.His family soon moved to the town of Bramhall in Cheshire, where he received his primary school education...
, Anthony JosephAnthony JosephAnthony Joseph is a British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer.Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised by his grandparents. He began writing as a young child and cites his main influences as the Calypso, surrealism, jazz, the spiritual Baptist church that his grandparents attended, and the...
, Luke KennardLuke KennardLuke Kennard is a British poet, playwright and academic born in 1982.His first prose-poems collection - The Solex Brothers was published by Stride, and won him an Eric Gregory Award in 2005...
, Nick LairdNick LairdNicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...
, Sarah Law, Frances LevistonFrances LevistonFrances Leviston is a British poet.Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. There she won their Ictus Prize in 2004,...
, Gwyneth LewisGwyneth LewisGwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....
, John McAuliffe, Chris McCabe, Helen MacdonaldHelen MacDonaldHelen MacDonald may refer to:* Helen MacDonald , member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2007* Helen MacDonald , Canadian politician, former leader of the New Democrats...
, Patrick McGuinnessPatrick McGuinness (writer)Patrick McGuinness is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University, and is also known as a poet and novelist.- Life :...
, Kona Macphee, Peter MansonPeter MansonPeter Manson is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Between Cup and Lip . For the Good of Liars , Adjunct: an Undigest , Before and After Mallarmé , Two renga Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include Between Cup and Lip (Miami University Press,...
, D. S. Marriott, Sam Meekings, Sinéad MorrisseySinead MorrisseySinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990...
, Daljit NagraDaljit NagraDaljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...
, Caitríona O'ReillyCaitriona O'ReillyCaitríona O'Reilly is an Irish poet and critic. She took BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere Birds ; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's...
, Alice OswaldAlice Oswald-Career:Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England....
, Katherine Pierpoint, Clare PollardClare PollardClare Pollard is an English poet and playwright. Born in 1978 and raised in Bolton, Pollard read English at Cambridge University. She published her first collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo, with Bloodaxe in 1998 aged 19. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2000, and has gone on to write three more...
, Jacob PolleyJacob PolleyJacob Polley is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.He graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 1997....
, Diana Pooley, Richard PriceRichard Price (poet)Richard Price is a contemporary Scottish poet, novelist, and translator. -Life:He grew up in Renfrewshire.He studied at Napier College, in journalism, and graduated the University of Strathclyde in English and Librarianship, with a joint first.He earned a PhD at University of...
, Sally Read, Deryn Rees-JonesDeryn Rees-JonesDeryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales and she thinks of herself as a Welsh writer....
, Neil RollinsonNeil Rollinson-Life:He studied at Newcastle University, but then moved to London.He was writer in residence at Wordworth’s Dove Cottage.He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.He tutors at the Arvon Centre.-Awards:...
, Jacob Sam-la Rose, Antony Rowland, James Sheard, Zoë SkouldingZoë SkouldingZoë Skoulding , is a poet, writer, musician, performer, and also a lecturer in creative writing.Since 1994 she has edited the creative writing magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively, and is the current editor of Poetry Wales.She has...
, Catherine Smith, Jean SpracklandJean SpracklandJean Sprackland is an English poet, the author of three collections of poetry published since 1997.-Biography:Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a few years before beginning to write poetry at...
, John StammersJohn Stammers-Life:Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. He took up writing poetry in his 40s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London and City Lit. In 2002/03 he was appointed...
, Greta Stoddart, Sandra Tappenden, Tim Turnbull, Julian TurnerJulian TurnerJulian Turner is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955...
, Mark Waldron, Ahren WarnerAhren WarnerAhren Warner is a British poet born in 1986. His first book, Confer , was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection...
, Tim Wells, Matthew Welton, David Wheatley, Sam Willetts, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Tamar Yoseloff.- George SzirtesGeorge SzirtesGeorge Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...
, New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, 300 pages, ISBN 978-1-906570-50-7
- George Szirtes
- Poets included: Patience Agbabi
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United Kingdom
- Ruth PadelRuth PadelRuth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
, Silent Letters of the Alphabet, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books - George SzirtesGeorge SzirtesGeorge Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...
, Fortinbras at the Fishhouses, series of public lectures at Newcastle University, Bloodaxe Books
United States
- Nicky Beer, The Diminishing House, 77 pages, Carnegie Mellon University Press, ISBN 978-0-88748-516-9
- Millicent Borges AccardiMillicent Borges AccardiMillicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese-American poet. She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts , CantoMundo, the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Formby Special Collections at Texas Tech University for research on the writer/activist...
, Injuring Eternity, 108 pages, World Nouveau Press, ISBN 13: 9780982886540 - Elizabeth Bradfield, Approaching Ice: Poems, 112 pages, Persea, ISBN 978-0-89255-355-6
- Charles BernsteinCharles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems of Charles Bernstein, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-374-10344-6 - Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, Selections, introduction by Jennifer MoxleyJennifer MoxleyJennifer Moxley is an American poet, editor, and translator who was born in San Diego, California. She currently teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine and resides in Maine with her partner, Steve Evans.- Poetry :...
, translations by many hands, University of California Press, Berkeley - Julie CarrJulie CarrJulie Carr is an American poet who has recently been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in 1988, from New York University with an MFA in 1997, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D...
, 100 Notes on Violence, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID - Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
, Nox, New Directions, described by one reviewer as "not really a 'book' at all, but rather a box of material connected accordion-style (in one folded, ribbon-like page many yards long) about the death of her deeply troubled older brother Michael" and including a translation of Catullus 101Catullus 101Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to the "mute ashes" which are the only remaining evidence of his brother's body....
; CanadianCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
published in the United States - Billy CollinsBilly CollinsBilly Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, Ballistics: Poems, 128 pages, Random House, ISBN 978-0-8129-7561-1 - Bei DaoBei DaoBei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...
, author, and Eliot WeinbergerEliot WeinbergerEliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...
, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/ChineseChinese poetryChinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1 - Todd F. DavisTodd F. DavisTodd F. Davis is a prize-winning American poet and critic.- Life and Work :Todd F. Davis is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College...
, The Least of These: Poems, 140 pages, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 978-0-87013-875-1 - Camille DungyCamille DungyCamille T. Dungy is an American poet and professor. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, Suck on the Marrow . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Antioch Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Crab Orchard...
, Suck on the Marrow, 88 pages, Red Hen Press, ISBN 978-1-59709-468-9 - Rachel Blau DuPlessisRachel Blau DuPlessisRachel Blau DuPlessis an American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry.-Life and work:...
, Pitch: Drafts 77 – 95, Salt PublishingSalt PublishingSalt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
, London - Larry EignerLarry EignerLaurence Joel Eigner / Larry Eigner was an American poet of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the principal figures of the Black Mountain School....
, The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, edited by Curtis Faville and Robert GrenierRobert Grenier (poet)Robert Grenier is a contemporary American poet associated with the Language School. He was founding co-editor of the influential magazine This...
, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2010, (Vol. I: 1937–1958; Vol. II: 1958–1966; Vol. III: 1966–1978; Vol. IV: 1978–1995); ISBN 978-0-8047-5090-5 - Aaron Fagan, Echo Train, Salt PublishingSalt PublishingSalt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
, London, ISBN 978-1-84471-749-1 - Elyse Fenton, Clamor, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH
- Musharraf Ali FarooqiMusharraf Ali FarooqiMusharraf Ali Farooqi is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, translator and journalist.-Biography:Farooqi received his early education in Hyderabad, at St...
, translator, Rococo and Other Worlds: Selected Poems, translation from the original UrduUrdu poetryUrdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....
of Afzal Ahmed Syed, 120 pages, Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6933-2 - Nada Gordon, Scented Rushes, Roof Books,
- Nathalie HandalNathalie HandalNathalie Handal is a French-American poet and playwright of Palestinian origin. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world.-Biography:...
, Love and Strange Horses, 91 pages; University of Pittsburgh Press - Robert HassRobert HassRobert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, Ecco Press, ISBN 0-06-192382-6 - Terrance HayesTerrance HayesTerrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
, Lighthead, Penguin, New York / London - Tony HoaglandTony HoaglandAnthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...
, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems, the author's first collection in seven years, 100 pages, Graywolf PressGraywolf PressGraywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded on a dedication to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture, Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.Now...
, ISBN 978-1-55597-549-4 - Brenda Iijima, If Not Metaphoric, Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID
- Carrie Jerrell, After the Revival, 80 pages, Waywiser Press, ISBN 978-1-904130-38-3
- Andrew JoronAndrew JoronAndrew Joron is an American writer of experimental poetry. He began by writing science fiction poetry. Joron's later poetry, combining scientific and philosophical ideas with the sonic properties of language, has been compared to the work of the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov...
, Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems, City Lights, San Francisco - Reb Livingston, God Damsel, No Tell Books, Reston VA
- Ben LernerBen LernerBenjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...
, Mean Free Path, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA ISBN 978-1-55659-314-7 - Shane McCraeShane McCraeShane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award...
, Mule, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, OH - Mark McMorrisMark McMorrisMark McMorris is a Canadian snowboarder who is the first to complete a backside triple cork 1440.McMorris competed at his first FIS Snowboard World Cup during the 2009-2010 season placing eighth in the big air event in Quebec City...
, Entrepôt, 90 pages, Coffee House Press, ISBN 978-1-56689-236-0 - John McNeeley, 39, 260 pages, CreateSpace, ISBN 978-1-4499-9779-3
- Deborah Meadows, Depleted Burden Down, Factory School, Queens, NY
- Erika MeitnerErika MeitnerErika Meitner is an American poet.She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA, and where she is studying for a doctorate in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of...
, Ideal Cities, 86 pages; Harper Perennial - Simone Muench, Orange Crush: Poems, 88 pages, Sarabande Books, ISBN 978-1-932511-79-6
- Sawako Nakayasu, Texture Notes, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver
- Travis NicholsTravis NicholsTravis Nichols is an American poet. He was born in Ames, Iowa in 1979 and now lives in Chicago where he works as an editor at the Poetry Foundation.A graduate of the University of Georgia and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst...
, Iowa, Letter Machine Editions, Chicago / Denver - Tamae K. Prindle, translator, On Knowing Oneself Too Well: Selected Poems of Ishikawa TakubokuIshikawa Takubokuwas a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis. Well known as both a tanka and 'modern-style' or 'free-style' poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism.-Major works:His major works were two...
, translated from the original Japanese of the tankaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
poems written until the author's death in 19121912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...
at age 26, 146 pages, Syllabic Press, ISBN 978-0-615-34562-8 - Barbara RasBarbara RasBarbara Ras is an American poet, translator and publisher. Her most recent poetry collection is The Last Skin , which was preceded by One Hidden Stuff , and her first collection is Bite Every Sorrow .-Life:She graduated from Simmons College, and University...
, The Last Skin, Penguin, New York / London - Atsuro RileyAtsuro RileyAtsuro Riley is an American poet.He is the author of Romey's Order . His work has appeared in Poetry, McSweeney's, and The Threepenny Review...
, Romey's Order, 54 pages; University of Chicago Press - Lisa RobertsonLisa RobertsonLisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.-Life:...
, R's Boat, 96 pages, "New California Poetry" series of the University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26240-9, written by a CanadianCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
poet living in and published in the United States - Marc Rosen, James P. Wagner, coeditors and compilers, Perspectives: Poetry Concerning Autism and Other Disabilities, 178 pages, Local Gems Poetry Press, ISBN 978-0-557-57112-3
- R. M. RyanR. M. RyanR. M. Ryan is the author of Vaudeville in the Dark, which was lauded by the New York Times as "written at the juncture of rapture and rupture." He is also the author of Goldilocks in Later Life and The Golden Rules...
, Vaudeville in the Dark, 68 pages; Louisiana State University Press - Benjamin Alire SáenzBenjamin Alire SaenzBenjamin Alire Sáenz is an award-winning American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.-Life:He was born at Old Picacho, New Mexico, the fourth of seven children, and was raised on a small farm near Mesilla, New Mexico....
, The Book of What Remains, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA - Sonia SanchezSonia SanchezSonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books...
, Morning Haiku, 144 pages, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-6910-3 - Sherod SantosSherod SantosSherod Santos is an American poet, essayist and professor. His most recent poetry collection is forthcoming, The Intricated Soul: New & Selected Poems...
, The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, 164 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-07216-7 - Leslie ScalapinoLeslie ScalapinoLeslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
, Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows, Starcherone Books, ISBN 978-0-9788811-9-1 - Steven Seymour, translator, If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems, translated from the original Russian of his wife, Vera PavlovaVera PavlovaVera Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian poet whose work has been published in The New Yorker.-External links:**...
, 128 pages, Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27225-6 - Melissa SteinMelissa SteinMelissa Stein is an American poet. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco....
, Rough Honey, 98 pages; American Poetry Review - Edwin TorresEdwin Torres (poet)Edwin Torres is a "Nuyorican" poet.-Early years:Torres's parents moved from Puerto Rico and settled in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. His father died when he was young and he was then raised by his mother and her brother Martin. Martin provided comfort and family support...
, In the Function of Extreme Circumstances, Nightboat Books, Callicoon, NY - Nguyen Trai, Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems, edited & translated by Nguyen Do & Paul HooverPaul HooverPaul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....
, Counterpath, Denver, 2010 - Frederick Goddard TuckermanFrederick Goddard TuckermanFrederick Goddard Tuckerman was an American poet, remembered mostly for his sonnet series. Apart from the 1860 publication of his book Poems, which included approximately two-fifths of his lifetime sonnet output and other poetic works in a variety of forms, the remainder of his poetry was...
, Selected Poems, edited by Ben Mazer with an introduction by Stephen BurtStephen BurtStephen Burt is a literary critic, poet, and a professor who teaches at Harvard University.-Elliptical Poetry:Burt received significant attention for coining the term "elliptical poetry" in a 1998 book review of Susan Wheeler's book, Smokes, in Boston Review magazine...
, Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), Cambridge, MA - Connie WanekConnie Wanek-Life:She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1989 she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota where she now lives....
, On Speaking Terms, Copper Canyon, Port Townsend, WA - Karen Weiser, To Light Out, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn
- C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon PressCopper Canyon PressCopper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...
) - Matthew ZapruderMatthew ZapruderMatthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist , won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006...
, Come On All You Ghosts, 111 pages; Copper Canyon Press
Anthologies in the United States
- David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, editors and translators, Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, 240 pages, New World Library, ISBN 978-1-57731-890-3
- David GroffDavid Groff-Biography:Groff graduated from the University of Iowa, with an MFA, and MA. He has taught at University of Iowa, Rutgers University, and NYU, and at William Paterson University....
and Philip ClarkPhilip ClarkPhilip Corriston Clark was an American rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the American rugby union team, which won the gold medal.-External links:*...
, Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS, 240 pages, Alyson Books, ISBN 978-1-59350-153-2 - Naomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab Nye is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and American mother. Although she regards herself as a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home.-Career:...
, Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, for "young adults", 256 pages, Greenwillow Books, ISBN 978-0-06-189637-8 - Kevin YoungKevin Young (poet)Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective...
, editor, The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing, 150 poems arranged to correspond with the grieving process, grouped by: Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery and Redemption; 336 pages, Bloomsbury USA, ISBN 978-1-60819-033-1
Criticism, scholarship and biography in the United States
- Robert ArchambeauRobert Archambeau (poet)Robert Archambeau is a poet and literary critic, whose works include the books Citation Suite, Home and Variations, and Laureates and Heretics, and the edited collections Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias, The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Letters of Blood:...
, Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press) ISBN 978-0-268-02036-1 - Norma ColeNorma ColeNorma Cole is a contemporary American poet, visual artist, and frequent translator from the French. A member of the circle of poets around Robert Duncan in the '80s, and a fellow traveler of San Francisco's language poets, Cole is also allied with contemporary French poets.-Life and work:A...
, To Be At Music: Essays & Talks (Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing) ISBN 978-1-890650-44-5 - Stephen RatcliffeStephen RatcliffeStephen Ratcliffe is a contemporary U.S. poet and critic who has published numerous books of poetry and three books of criticism. He lives in Bolinas, CA and is the publisher of Avenue B Press...
, Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2010)
Poets in The Best American Poetry 2010
These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010, with David LehmanDavid Lehman
David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...
, general editor, and Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...
, guest editor (who selected the poetry):
- Dick AllenDick Allen (poet)Dick Allen is an American poet, literary critic and academic born in Troy, New York who is serving a five-year term as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2015....
- John AshberyJohn AshberyJohn Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
- Sandra BeasleySandra BeasleySandra Beasley is an American poet and non-fiction writer.-Background:Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, earned a B.A. in English magna cum laude from the University of Virginia, and later received an MFA degree from American University...
- Mark Bibbins
- Todd Boss
- Fleda BrownFleda BrownFleda Brown is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.-Biography:Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the University of Delaware English Department. There she founded the Poets in the Schools Program,...
- Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
- Tom ClarkTom Clark (poet)Tom Clark is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City...
- David ClewellDavid Clewell-Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin and Washington University with an M.F.A.He teaches at Webster University.His work has appeared Harper's, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Ontario Review, New Letters, and Yankee.He lives in St...
- Michael CollierMichael Collier (poet)Michael Robert Collier is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the...
- Billy CollinsBilly CollinsBilly Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
- Dennis CooperDennis CooperDennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire...
- Kate DanielsKate Danielsfor the Kate Daniels urban fantasy mystery series, see Ilona AndrewsKate Daniels is an American poet.-Life:...
- Peter Davis
- Tim DlugosTim DlugosTim Dlugos was an American poet.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he grew up in Arlington, Virginia....
- Denise DuhamelDenise Duhamel-Background:Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University...
- Thomas Sayers EllisThomas Sayers EllisThomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
- Lynn EmanuelLynn EmanuelLynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....
- Elaine EquiElaine EquiElaine Equi is an American poet.Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area. Since 1988 she has lived in New York with her husband, poet Jerome Sala. She currently teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School...
- Jill Alexander EssbaumJill Alexander EssbaumJill Alexander Essbaum is a Christian erotic poet distinguished as the author of the 1999 Bakeless Prize winner in poetry, Heaven, the 2005 collection of sonnets, Oh Forbidden, and the full length collections Harlot and Necropolis...
- B. H. FairchildB. H. FairchildB.H. Fairchild is an award-winning American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is Usher , and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The...
- Vievee Francis
- Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
- Albert GoldbarthAlbert GoldbarthAlbert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive 'talky' style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only...
- Amy Glynn Greacen
- Sonia Greenfield
- Kelle Groom
- Gabriel GuddingGabriel Gudding-Life:Gudding was born in a Norwegian-American part of northwestern Minnesota.Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Illinois State University...
- Kimiko HahnKimiko HahnKimiko Hahn is an American poet and instructor of poetry.-Personal:Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A...
- Barbara HambyBarbara Hamby-Life:She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium , received literary recognition...
- Terrance HayesTerrance HayesTerrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
- Bob HicokBob Hicok-Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...
- Rodney JonesRodney JonesRodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B...
- Michaela Kahn
- Brigit Pegeen KellyBrigit Pegeen KellyBrigit Pegeen Kelly is an award-winning American poet.-Life:She is married to , a poet and fiction writer.She taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, and Warren Wilson College....
- Corinne LeeCorinne LeeCorinne Lee is an author of poems, short stories, and essays.-Biography:She graduated from Palos Verdes High School in 1980, and the University of Southern California, in 1983, and the Iowa Writers Workshop....
- Hailey Leithauser
- Dolly Lemke
- Maurice ManningMaurice ManningMaurice Manning is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. Manning was a member of the Oireachtas for 21 years, serving in both the Dáil and the Seanad. Since August 2002 he has been President of the Irish Human Rights Commission...
- Adrian MatejkaAdrian MatejkaAdrian Matejka is an African-American poet. His most recent book is Mixology . He graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with an MFA. He is a Cave Canem Workshop fellow...
- Shane McCraeShane McCraeShane McCrae is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Mule and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award...
- Jeffrey McDanielJeffrey McDanielJeffrey McDaniel is an American poet. He has published four books of poetry, most recently 'The Endarkenment' . He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts...
- W. S. MerwinW. S. MerwinWilliam Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...
- Sarah MurphySarah MurphySarah Murphy is a New Zealand biathlete. She represented New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was the first Kiwi Olympic biathlete....
- Eileen MylesEileen MylesEileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...
- Camille NortonCamille Norton-Life:She studied with Martha Collins, Linda Dittmar, and Lois Rudnick at University of Massachusetts, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst; graduated from University of Massachusetts Boston, and Harvard University with a M.A...
- Alice NotleyAlice NotleyAlice Notley is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She married poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in...
- Sharon OldsSharon Olds-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
- Gregory PardloGregory PardloGregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio...
- Lucia PerilloLucia Perillo-Life:Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A...
- Carl PhillipsCarl PhillipsCarl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis....
- Adrienne RichAdrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
- James RichardsonJames Richardson (poet)-Career & Education:James Richardson an American poet and critic. He is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1980. He grew up in Garden City, New York and attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1971. He earned his Ph.D...
- J. Allyn RosserJ. Allyn RosserJill Allyn Rosser , who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.-Life:She grew up in Sparta, New Jersey....
- James SchuylerJames SchuylerJames Marcus Schuyler was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection The Morning of the Poem...
- Tim SeiblesTim SeiblesTim Seibles is an American poet and professor. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Buffalo Head Solos...
- David ShapiroDavid Shapiro (poet)David Shapiro is an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism...
- Charles SimicCharles SimicDušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
- Frank StanfordFrank StanfordFrank Stanford was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine, highly lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation...
- Gerald SternGerald SternGerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...
- Stephen Campbell Sutherland
- James TateJames Tate (writer)James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
- David TrinidadDavid Trinidad-Biography:Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1980s, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper, Bob Flanagan, and Amy Gerstler. As editor of Sherwood...
- Chase TwichellChase TwichellChase Twichell is an American poet, professor, and publisher, the founder in 1999, of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, which earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award....
- John UpdikeJohn UpdikeJohn Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....
- Derek WalcottDerek WalcottDerek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
- G.C. WaldrepG.C. WaldrepGeorge Calvin Waldrep is an American poet and historian. -Biography:Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.He was visiting professor at Kenyon...
- J. E. Wei
- Dara WierDara WierDara Wier is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently SELECTED POEMS from Wave Books. Awards include the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, Pushcart Prize, San Francisco Poetry Center Prize. Her work is in Best American Poetry...
- Terence WinchTerence Winch-Biography:Terence Patrick Winch was born in New York City in 1945. He grew up in an Irish neighborhood in the Bronx, the child of Irish immigrants. In 1971, he moved to Washington, DC, where he became involved with the Mass Transit readings in Dupont Circle. He published the first issue of Mass...
- Catherine Wing
- Mark WunderlichMark WunderlichMark Wunderlich ) is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin...
- Matthew Yeager
- Dean YoungDean Young (poet)Dean Young is a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derives influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets,...
- Kevin YoungKevin Young (poet)Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective...
Danish language
- Jöannes Nielsen, Broer af sultne ord ("Bridges of Hungry Words"), translated from the Faeroese by Erik Skyum-Nielsen, ISBN 978-87-92286-17-8, 52 pages
- Andrea Petri, Kulørte balletfantasier ("Colored Ballet Fantasies"), ISBN 978-87-92467-65-2, 41 pages
- Allan Strandby Nielsen, Hvis der ikke er sandstorme, så er der nok noget andet ("If There Are Sandstorms, Then There Is Probably Something Else"), ISBN 978-87-02-09049-9, 88 pages
FranceFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
- Marc AlynMarc AlynMarc Alyn , is a French poet.-Life:He was mobilized to Algeria in 1957.He lived far from Paris, a farmhouse in Uzès, Gard....
, Anthologie poétique amoureuse, 330 pages, Ecriture, ISBN 978-2-909240-98-5 - Luc Bérimont, Poésies Complètes, publisher: Presses Universitaires d'Angers
- Abdellatif LaabiAbdellatif LaabiAbdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966...
, Oeuvre poétique II, publisher: La Différence - Yvon Le Men, Le Tour du monde en 80 poèmes, publisher: Flammarion
- Bernard NoëlBernard NoëlBernard Noël is a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie in 1992 and the Prix Robert Ganzo in 2010....
, Les Plumes d'éros ("The Feathers of Eros"), Works, Volume 1, poetry and prose, 448 pages, Galimard, ISBN 978-2-84682-349-4 - Sergio Badilla CastilloSergio Badilla CastilloSergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...
Ville Asiégée. Al Manar. Voix Vives de Méditerraée. Juillet 2010
Anthologies in France
- Marie-Claire Bancquart, editor, Couleurs femmes: Poèmes de 57 femmes, Le Castor Astral
- Christine Planté, editor, Femmes poètes du XIXe siècle: Une anthologie, PUL
- Erhan Turgut, editor, Voix de femmes. Anthologie de femmes poètes et photographes du monde, Turquoise Editions
Germany
- John AshberyJohn AshberyJohn Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
, Ein weltgewandtes Land: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("A Worldly Country: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Gerhard Falkner, Jan Wagner, Ron Winkler, Uljana Wolf et. a. 340 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-26-5 - Tadeusz DabrowskiTadeusz DąbrowskiTadeusz Dąbrowski is a Polish, poet, essayist, and critic. He is also the editor of the literary bimonthly Topos.Dąbrowski has been published in many journals in Poland and abroad Tadeusz Dąbrowski (born 1979) is a Polish, poet, essayist, and critic. He is also the editor of the literary...
, Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund. Zweisprachig a bilingual Polish/German edition; translated into German by Andre Rudolph, Monika Rinck, 140 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-94-4 - Rolf Haufs, Tanzstunde auf See: Gedichte, 128 pages, Hanser, ISBN 978-3-446-20678-6
- Martina Hefter, Nach den Diskotheken: Gedichte, 80 pages, Kookbooks, ISBN 978-3-937445-41-0
- Gert JonkeGert JonkeGert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.-Life:Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium and the Conservatory...
, Alle Gedichte: Gedichte ("Complete Poems"), 160 pages, Jung und Jung, ISBN 978-3-902497-65-9 - Nadja Küchenmeister, Alle Geister: Gedichte, 104 pages, Schöffling, ISBN 978-3-89561-225-1
- Ben LernerBen LernerBenjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...
, Die Lichtenbergfiguren: Gedichte. Zweisprachig ("The Lichtenberg Figures: Poems"), a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Steffen Popp, 70 pages, luxbooks, ISBN 978-3-939557-42-5 - Gwendolyn McEwen Die T. E. Lawrence Gedichte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual English/German edition; translated into German by Christine Koschel, 160 pages, Edition Rugerup, ISBN 978-91-89034-26-6
- Benard Noel, Körperextrakte: Gedichte. Zweisprachig, a bilingual French/German edition; translated into German by Angela Sanmann, 106 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-349-8
- Jörn Pfennig, Grondlos Zärtlich: Gedichte ("Unwarranted Tenderness: Poems"), 116 pages, Talberg, ISBN 978-3-9813473-0-2
- Marion Poschmann, Geistersehen: Gedichte ("Seeing Ghosts"), 126 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42129-17
- Marcus Roloff, Im toten Winkel des goldenen Schnitts, 72 pages, Gutleut, ISBN 978-3-936826-49-4
- Doris RungeDoris RungeDoris Runge is a German writer.She was the daughter of a manufacturer whose business was expropriated after World War II. Her family moved to Neukirchen in Schleswig-Holstein in 1953, and he attended schools in Oldenburg and Lubeck before following high education in Kiel where she became a teacher...
, Was da auftaucht: Gedichte, 84 pages, dtv, ISBN 978-3-421-04485-3 - Lutz Seiler, Felderlatein: Gedichte, 102 pages, Suhrkamp, ISBN 978-3-518-42169-7
- Ernest Wichner Bin ganz wie aufgesperrt, 47 pages, Das Wunderhorn, ISBN 978-3-88423-352-8
- Ron Winkler, Frenetische Stille: Gedichte ("Frenetic Silence: Poems"), 96 pages, Berlin Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8270-0920-3
PolandPolish poetryPolish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....
- Jacek Gutorow, Na brzegu rzeki; publisher: Biuro Literackie
- Jiří KolářJirí KolárJiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art.- Life :Kolář came from a poor family of a baker and a seamstress...
, Sposób użycia i inne wiersze, selected, translated from the original Czech and annotated by Leszek EngelkingLeszek EngelkingLeszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
; publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Urszula Kozioł, Horrendum; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
- Ewa LipskaEwa LipskaEwa Lipska, born October 8, 1945, in Kraków is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian...
, Pogłos; publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie - Andrzej Sosnowski, Poems (untranslated title); publisher: Biuro Literackie
- Bohdan Zadura, Węgierskie lato. Przekłady z poetów węgierskich, translated from the original Hungarian; publisher: Biuro Literacke
- Adam ZagajewskiAdam ZagajewskiAdam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks...
, Wiersze wybrane (Selected Poems), publisher: Wydawnictwp a5
Spanish language
- Sergio Badilla CastilloSergio Badilla CastilloSergio Badilla Castillo is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry...
Ok Atacama. Pentagrama edicions. Julio 2010, Santiago de Chile,
Other languages
- Bei DaoBei DaoBei Dao is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai . He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude...
, author, and Eliot WeinbergerEliot WeinbergerEliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages...
, translator and editor, The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems, a bilingual English/ChineseChinese poetryChinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
edition of poems written in Chinese by Bei Dao; preface by Bei Dao, afterward by Eliot Weinberger; 304 pages; New Directions, ISBN 978-0-8112-1848-1; published in the United States - János Háy, Egy szerelmes vers története ("The Story of a Love Poem"), Palatinus; Hungary
International
- Golden Wreath of PoetryStruga Poetry EveningsStruga Poetry Evenings is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Republic of Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud...
: Lyubomir Levchev (BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Australia awards and honors
- C. J. Dennis Prize for PoetryC. J. Dennis Prize for PoetryThe C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J...
: - Kenneth Slessor Prize for PoetryKenneth Slessor Prize for PoetryThe Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form...
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CanadaCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
awards and honors
- Archibald Lampman AwardArchibald Lampman AwardThe Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine Arc, for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region.- History :...
: - Atlantic Poetry PrizeAtlantic Poetry PrizeThe Atlantic Poetry Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.-Winners:*1998 - Carmelita McGrath, To the New World...
: - 2010 Governor General's Awards2010 Governor General's AwardsThe shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 13, and winning titles were announced on November 16...
. - Griffin Poetry PrizeGriffin Poetry PrizeThe Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....
:- Canadian: Karen SolieKaren SolieKaren Solie is a Canadian poet.Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher...
, Pigeon - International, in the English Language: Eilean Ni ChuilleanainEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinEiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
, The Sun-fish - Lifetime Recognition Award: Adrienne RichAdrienne RichAdrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...
- Canadian: Karen Solie
- Pat Lowther AwardPat Lowther AwardThe Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...
: - Prix Alain-GrandboisPrix Alain-GrandboisThe Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry. The jury is composed of three members of the Académie des lettres du Québec...
: - Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook AwardShaunt Basmajian Chapbook AwardThe Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, established in 1996, was an annual prize given by the Canadian Poetry Association. It was named in memory of Shaunt Basmajian, a founder of the association. It was an annual manuscript publication competition and award...
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New ZealandNew Zealand literatureNew Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...
awards and honors
- Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement:
- Montana New Zealand Book AwardsMontana New Zealand Book AwardsThe New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
(poetry category):
United KingdomEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
awards and honors
- Cholmondeley AwardCholmondeley AwardThe Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
: - Costa Award (formerly "Whitbread Awards") for poetry: Christopher ReidChristopher ReidChristopher Reid is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs...
A Scattering- Shortlist:
- English Association's Fellows' Poetry Prizes:
- Eric Gregory AwardEric Gregory AwardThe Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
(for a collection of poems by a poet under the age of 30): - Forward Poetry PrizeForward Poetry PrizeThe Forward Poetry Prizes were created in 1991. The aim of the prizes is to extend the audience for contemporary poetry. Until the T.S. Eliot Prize remuneration was increased to £15,000 plus £1000 to each of nine runners-up, the Forward was the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry...
:- Best Collection:
- Shortlist: Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
(for Human ChainHuman Chain (poetry)Human Chain is the twelfth collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011. This was Heaney's second Irish Times Poetry Now Award, previously winning in 2007 for District and...
), Lachlan MackinnonLachlan MackinnonLachlan Mackinnon is a contemporary Scottish poet, critic and literary journalist. He was born in Aberdeen and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. He recently took early retirement from his job as a teacher of English at Winchester College and moved to Ely with his partner, the poet Wendy Cope...
(for Small Hours), Sinéad MorrisseySinead MorrisseySinéad Morrissey is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Life:Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990...
(for Through the Square Window), and Fiona SampsonFiona Sampson-Life :Born in London, Sampson grew up in the West Country, on the west coast of Wales and in Gloucestershire. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize...
(for Rough Music), Robin RobertsonRobin RobertsonRobin Robertson is a Scottish poet.-Biography:Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London...
(for The Wrecking Light), Jo ShapcottJo ShapcottJo Shapcott FRSL, is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.-Career:...
(for Of Mutability)
- Shortlist: Seamus Heaney
- Best First Collection:
- Shortlist: Christian Campbell (for Running the Dusk), Hilary MenosHilary MenosHillary Menos is an English poet, born in Luton in 1964. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford, then worked as a food journalist and restaurant critic in London before moving to Devon to renovate a Domesday Manor...
(for Berg), Abegail Morley (for How to Pour Madness into a Teacup), Helen Oswald (for Learning Gravity), Steve Spence (for A Curious Shipwreck), and Sam Willetts (for New Light for the Old Dark)
- Shortlist: Christian Campbell (for Running the Dusk), Hilary Menos
- Best Poem:
- Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for On Highgate Hill), Julia CopusJulia CopusJulia Copus is a British poet and radio dramatist.-Career:Copus' books of poetry include The Shuttered Eye , which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery...
(for An Easy Passage), Lydia Fulleylove (for Night Drive), Chris Jones (for Sentences), Ian Pindar (for Mrs Beltinska in the Bath), and Lee Sands (for The Reach)
- Shortlist: Kate Bingham (for On Highgate Hill), Julia Copus
- Best Collection:
- Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for poetry:
- Shortlist:
- Manchester Poetry Prize:
- Michael Marks Award for Pamphlet of the Year: "Advice On Wearing Animal Prints" Selima Hill (Flarestack Poets)
- National Poet of Wales:
- National Poetry Competition 2010:
- T. S. Eliot PrizeT. S. Eliot PrizeThe T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...
(United Kingdom and Ireland): Derek WalcottDerek WalcottDerek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
, White Egrets- Shortlist (announced in November 2010): 2010 Short List
- The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation:
United States awards and honors
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeThe Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
awarded to Glenn Shaheen for Predatory - Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: John KoetheJohn KoetheJohn Koethe is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego, California, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee....
, Ninety-fifth Street - National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
for Poetry: "Lighthead" by Terrance HayesTerrance HayesTerrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry... - National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Critics Circle AwardThe National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle to promote the finest books and reviews published in English....
for Poetry: to C.D. Wright for One With Others - Poet Laureate of VirginiaPoet Laureate of VirginiaThe position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the General Assembly.Originally the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year. The procedure was later changed and most recently codified in 1998...
: Kelly CherryKelly CherryKelly Cherry is an author, poet, and the Poet Laureate of Virginia,. A resident of Halifax, Virginia, she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor Bob McDonnell in July 2010...
, two year appointment 2010 to 2012 - Pulitzer Prize for PoetryPulitzer Prize for PoetryThe Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...
(United States): Rae ArmantroutRae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
, VersedVersedVersed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.-Awards:...
- Finalists: Tryst by Angie EstesAngie EstesAngie Estes is an American poet, and professor at Ashland University.She graduated from the University of Oregon with an M.A. and Ph.D. in English.She taught at California Polytechnic State University, and at Oberlin College, and at The Ohio State University...
and Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia PerilloLucia Perillo-Life:Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A...
- Finalists: Tryst by Angie Estes
- Wallace Stevens Award: Galway KinnellGalway KinnellGalway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...
- PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationPEN Award for Poetry in TranslationThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation honors a poetry translation published in the preceding year.The award is separate from the similar PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.-Winners:-See also:*American poetry*List of poetry awards...
: Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
for translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; ElektraElectra (Sophocles)Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan...
by Sophokles; OrestesOrestes (play)Orestes is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.-Background:...
by EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
. Judge: Richard SieburthRichard SieburthRichard Sieburth is a translator, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. He has gained widespread recognition for his numerous translations from both German and French literature, receiving a number of awards and prizes for his work. Sieburth is considered an authority on literary modernism,... - PEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryPEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.Awardees:...
: Marilyn HackerMarilyn HackerMarilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York.... - Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award: Paul VangelistiPaul VangelistiPaul Vangelisti is an United States poet and broadcaster. He graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy...
- Ruth Lilly Poetry PrizeRuth Lilly Poetry PrizeThe Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the Foundation also publishes Poetry. The Prize was established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly. The prize honors a living U.S. poet whose "lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"; its value is presently $100,000...
: Eleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes... - Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: D. A. PowellD. A. Powell-Life and career:Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Linda, California. He then worked in a number of jobs before eventually settling in Santa Rosa, California, where he attended Sonoma State University. He earned a bachelor's degree...
for Chronic
From the Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
- Frost MedalFrost MedalThe Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $2,500....
: Lucille CliftonLucille CliftonLucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland... - Shelley Memorial AwardShelley Memorial AwardThe Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, given out by the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of the late Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need. The selection is...
: Kenneth IrbyKenneth IrbyKenneth Irby is an American poet. He won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.He is sometimes associated with the Black Mountain poets, especially with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn....
/ Eileen MylesEileen MylesEileen Myles is an American poet who has also worked in fiction, non-fiction, and theater.She won a 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.-Early life and career:...
Judges: - Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardWriter Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardThe Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style." The winner receives a $250 prize.-Winners:*2010: Marlene Rosen Fine,...
: Marlene Rosen Fine Judge: Marie PonsotMarie PonsotMarie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily... - Lyric Poetry Award: Ira SadoffIra SadoffIra Sadoff is an award winning and widely anthologized poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.-Life:Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. from the University of...
Judge: Megan O'Rourke - Lucille Medwick Memorial Award: Sandra Stone Judge: Juan Felipe HerreraJuan Felipe HerreraJuan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.The only son of María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern...
; finalist: - Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award: Rebecca Morgan Frank Judge: Marilyn HackerMarilyn HackerMarilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....
; finalists: - Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award: Liya Person-Rechtman Judge: Arda CollinsArda Collins-Life:Collins was an intern, working up to research assistant, and then assistant director, of Public television documentaries, from 1997-2003.She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow....
; finalists: - George Bogin Memorial Award: Sawnie Morris Judge:Hettie JonesHettie JonesHettie Jones is best known as the former wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. They have two children, Kellie and Lisa Jones....
- Robert H. Winner Memorial Award: Leslie Williams Judge: David St. JohnDavid St. John-Biography:Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. in 1974...
; finalists: - Cecil Hemley Memorial Award: Karla Kelsey Judge: Forrest GanderForrest GanderForrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
- Norma Farber First Book AwardNorma Farber First Book AwardThe Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year"....
: Scott Coffel Judge: Edward HirschEdward HirschEdward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial... - William Carlos Williams AwardWilliam Carlos Williams AwardThe William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press....
: Eleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
Judge: Lynn EmanuelLynn EmanuelLynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....
; finalists:
From the Poetry Society of Virginia Student Poetry Contest
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Poetry Society Prize- 1st place Catherine Ray, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Where Poems Hide For Me”
- 2nd place Sophia Rose Carbonneau, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Alter Ego”
- 3rd place Abbie Hinchman, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “What’s in My Journal”
- 1st Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins, Edgecomb, Maine for the poem “Wabanaki”
- 2nd Honorable Mention Hari Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA for the poem “Non-Entity”
- 3rd Honorable Mention Sophie Bell, Pound Ridge, NY for the poem “The Calming Book”
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Jenkins Prize
- 1st place Edyt Dickstein, Livingston, NJ for the poem "Promises"
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: Virginia Student Prize
- 1st place Lauren Rae (Wren) Brown, Springfield, VA for the poem “Truly (Louis XVI’s monologue)”
- 2nd place Meredith Makhoul, Richmond VA for the poem “Intersection of Patterson and Chopt”
- 3rd place Taylor Knight, Richmond, VA for the poem “Father”
- 1st Honorable Mention Audrey Crothers, Virginia Beach, VA for the poem “Odysseus Returns”
- 2nd Honorable Mention James Ruml, Richmond, VA for the poem “I Wanted”
- 3rd Honorable Mention Hunter Johnson, Richmond, VA for the poem “English Class”
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-8 Category – Undergraduate College
- 1st place Chelsea Henderson, Charlottesville, VA for the poem “Indignities”
- 2nd place Stephanie Wang, Roslyn, NY for the poem “He Wrote My Name In Snow”
- 3rd place Audrey Walls, Richmond, VA for the poem “My Sister, January 1989”
- 1st Honoralbe Mention Liam Kane-Grade, Prairie du Sac, WI for the poem “Ants in the Rain”
- 2nd Honorable Mention Nathan W. Friedman, Richmond, VA for the poem, “Re-enactors”
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10
- 1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem “Moon”
- 2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304”
- 3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem “Natural Love”
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8
- 1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem “Sentences”
- 2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem “Just Because”
- 3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat”
- 1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem “The Bus”
- 2nd Honorable Mention Abby Williams, Richmond, VA for the poem “Devotion”
- 3rd Honorable Mention Abbey Hutchins for the poem “Together”
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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 1 – Bingo GazingoBingo GazingoMurray Wachs, better known as Bingo Gazingo , was an elderly poet and former postal worker from New York City. Two versions, each also titled Bingo Gazingo, have been released of the only single-artist album ever released by WFMU -- the first on cassette, the second on CD...
, 85, American performance poetPerformance poetryPerformance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...
, struck by car - January 8 – Slavka ManevaSlavka ManevaSlavka Maneva was a Macedonian writer and poet. She was born and died in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She finished her literature studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Skopje, and has worked as a professor of Macedonian language and literature, now publishing children's books...
, 75, MacedonianMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
writer and poet - January 11 – Fina de CalderónFina de CalderónFina de Calderón was a Spanish writer, poet, songwriter, and musician. Her song " Caracola " was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed by Los TNT.-Life:...
, 82, SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature.... - January 14 – P. K. PageP. K. PagePatricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...
, 93 (born 19161916 in poetry-- Closing lines of "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), CanadianCanadian poetry- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...
poet - January 20:
- Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born BritishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and painter - Avrom Sutzkever, 96 (born 19131913 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...
), Israeli, Yiddish-language poet
- Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born British
- February 6 – Robert DanaRobert Dana-External links:Links to poems*, poetry by Robert Dana including "Heat", "A Short History of the Middle West", and "Beach Attitudes" on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor*, poetry by Robert Dana including the poem "Rapture" on Anhinga Press....
, 80 (born 19291929 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication* The Dial ceases publication...
), American poet, was the poet laureate for the State of IowaIowaIowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
from 2004–2008, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. - February 13 – Lucille CliftonLucille CliftonLucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...
, 73 (born 19361936 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;...
), American poet and former Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
of MarylandMarylandMaryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
(1974–1985). - March 12 – Todd Moore, 72 (born 19371937 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...
), American poet - March 14 – Vinda KarandikarVinda KarandikarGovind Vināyak Karandikar , better known as Vindā Karandikar , was a well-known Marathi poet and writer. He was also an essayist, literary critic, and a translator....
, 91, (born 19181918 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...
), IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, MarathiMarathi poetry-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
-language poet and writer, after short illness. http://www.ptinews.com/news/563689_Marathi-writer-Karandikar-passes-away - March 20 – AiAi (poet)Florence Anthony was a National Book Award winning American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa...
, 62, (born 19471947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....
), an American poet whose book Vice (1999) won the National Book Award for PoetryNational Book Award for PoetryThe National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...
. Born Florence Anthony, she legally changed her name to Ai. - April 2 – Carolyn M. RodgersCarolyn RodgersCarolyn Marie Rodgers was a Chicago-based American poet and a founder of one of America’s oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press...
, 69, (born 19401940 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
), was an American poet based in Chicago, participated in Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
's Writers Workshops and gained prominence as part of the Black Arts MovementBlack Arts MovementThe Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka...
. - April 5 – William Neill, 88, (born 19221922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...
), Scottish poet. - April 23 – Peter PorterPeter Porter (poet)Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...
, 81, (born 19291929 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication* The Dial ceases publication...
), was an Australian-born British poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
. Associated with referred to in Britain as The GroupThe Group (literature)The Group was an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s. As a poetic movement in Great Britain it is often seen as a being the successor to The Movement.-Cambridge:...
, he was also recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia. - May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, 88 (born 19221922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...
), VietnameseVietnamese literatureVietnamese literature is literature, both oral and written, created largely by Vietnamese-speaking people, although Francophone Vietnamese and English-speaking Vietnamese authors in Australia and the United States are counted by many critics as part of the national tradition...
poet and playwright - May 7 – Rane ArroyoRane ArroyoRane Ramón Arroyo was an American poet, playwright, and scholar of Puerto Rican descent who wrote numerous books and received many literary awards. He was a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Toledo in Ohio. His work deals extensively with issues of immigration, Latino...
, 55, (born 19541954 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review...
), American poet and playwright. - May 10 – David ChalonerDavid ChalonerDavid Chaloner was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, and a prominent British designer.-Life:...
, 65 (born 19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
designer (of interior public spaces) and poet - May 17:
- Mukhran MachavarianiMukhran MachavarianiMukhran Machavariani was a Georgian poet, a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia from 1990 until 1992, and a recipient of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. From 1988 until 1990 he was the Chairman of the Union of Georgian Writers....
, 81 (born 19291929 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication* The Dial ceases publication...
), Georgian poet, died while delivering a speech on the stage of the Rustaveli Theatre on the occasion of the 85th birthday of a fellow poet, Pridon Khalvashi - Judson CrewsJudson CrewsJudson Crews was an American poet, bookseller and small press publisher.Crews was born and raised in Waco, Texas. He first opened his Motive Bookshop and issued his first Motive Press publications in Waco. In 1947 he moved both concerns to Taos, New Mexico and married Taos photographer Mildred...
, 92, (born 19171917 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* July — Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where on August 17 Wilfred Owen introduces himself...
), American poet, small press publisher, and bookseller.
- Mukhran Machavariani
- May 18:
- Edoardo SanguinetiEdoardo SanguinetiEdoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....
, 79, (born 19301930 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, ....
), ItalianItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
poet, playwright, critic and winner of the Bagutta PrizeBagutta PrizeThe Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize.It originated in Milan's Bagutta Ristorante. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he had numerous friends who would dine together and discuss books. On 11 November 1927 they decided to create a literary prize and named it...
. - Peter SeatonPeter SeatonPeter Seaton was a U.S. poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely read and influential...
, 67, (born 19421942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army....
), American poet associated with the Language poetry movement, of an apparent heart attack.
- Edoardo Sanguineti
- May 20 – Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, PeruvianPeruvian literatureThe term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the...
In a tribute to Valcarcel organized by Argentine poet Gabriel Impaglione, 30 poets recited free-verse poems on May 31. - May 21 – Driek van WissenDriek van WissenDriek van Wissen was a Dutch poet. He was born in Groningen. On January 26, 2005 he was chosen as the Dichter des Vaderlands , following Gerrit Komrij. In 1987 the Dutch literary magazine De Tweede Ronde honored him by awarding him the Kees-Stip Prize for his career work and use of light verse...
, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage - May 22 – Veturi Sundararama Murthy , 74, TeluguTelugu literatureThe Telugu literature or Telugu Sahityam is one of the most precious possessions of the literary products of India. Telugu literature is rich reserve of poems, stories, dramas and puranas. It flowered in the early 16th century under the Vijayanagar empire, of which Telugu was one of the court...
-language IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
poet, journalist, writer and lyricist in the Indian cinema, cardiac arrest. - May 28 – Leslie ScalapinoLeslie ScalapinoLeslie Scalapino was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of...
, 65, (born 19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
), American poet, playwrightPlaywrightA playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, and editorEditorThe term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
, winner of the American Book AwardAmerican Book AwardThe American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
. - May 30 – Peter OrlovskyPeter OrlovskyPeter Anton Orlovsky was an American poet.-Life and work:Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine and Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant. He was raised in poverty and was forced to drop out of Newtown High School in his senior year so he could support his...
, 76, (born 19331933 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought but...
), American poet and lifelong companion of Beat GenerationBeat generationThe Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
poet Allen GinsbergAllen GinsbergIrwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
. - June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, 77 (born 19331933 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought but...
), Russian poet - June 7:
- José AlbiJosé AlbiJosé Albi Fita was a Spanish poet, literary critic, and translator. He was the honorary president of the Asociación Valenciana de Escritores y Críticos Literarios...
, 88 (born 19221922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...
), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
poet, literary critic and translator - Ndoc GjetjaNdoc GjetjaNdoc Gjetja was an Albanian poet. He died after a long illness.-External links:*...
, 66 (born 19441944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first and second lines of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne were broadcast by the Allies over Radio Londres this year as a message in code to the...
), Albanian poet and magazine editor, after long illness
- José Albi
- June 16 – Allen HoeyAllen HoeyAllen Hoey was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic who received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2008 collection of poems Country Music.-Life:...
, 57 (born 19521952 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...
), American poet who received a Pulitzer prize nomination for his 2008 collection Country Music,, of a heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
. - June 18 – Jose SaramagoJosé SaramagoJosé de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
, 87 (born 19221922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry established...
), PortuguesePortuguese poetry-History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...
novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, communist political commentator and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for literature - July 2 – Tommy TabermannTommy TabermannTommy Tabermann was a Finnish contemporary poet and politician, radio personality and journalist...
, 62 (born 19471947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....
), FinnishFinnish poetryFinnish poetry is the poetry of the Finnish language. It has its roots in the early folk music of the area, and still has a thriving presence today.The most well-known opus of Finnish poetry is the mythical epic Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot....
poet and politician - July 3 – Roberto PivaRoberto PivaRoberto Piva was a Brazilian poet and writer. He died from complications from Parkinson's disease.-Bibliography:Booklet* Ode a Fernando Pessoa, 1961Individual works...
, 72 (born 19371937 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...
), Brazilian poet and writer - July 5 – Pete MorganPete MorganColin Peter Morgan was a British poet, lyricist and television documentary author and presenter.Morgan's career as a poet began in the mid-1950s when he was 16 and living alone in London. He entered the British Army and rose to the rank of infantry platoon commander while serving in West Germany...
, 71 (born 19391939 in poetry— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Last issue of The Criterion is published....
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is... - July 12 – Tuli KupferbergTuli KupferbergNaphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.-Biography:...
, 86, American Beat poet and singer - August 3 – Marilyn BuckMarilyn BuckMarilyn Jean Buck was an American Marxist revolutionary, convict, and feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brinks robbery and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing...
, 62 (born 19471947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dorothy Parker divorces Alan Campbell for the first time....
), radical American left-wing terrorist and poet - August 15 – Ghazi Abdul Rahman Algosaibi, 70, (born 19401940 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
), Saudi ArabianArabic poetryArabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...
statesman, writer, novelist and poet - August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve (DevanagariDevanagariDevanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
: नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे), 83 (born 19261926 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St...
), IndianIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...
, MarathiMarathi poetry-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
-language poet - August 17:
- Ludvik KunderaLudvík KunderaLudvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic...
, 90 (born 19201920 in poetry— Opening and closing lines of The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian; a cousin of Milan KunderaMilan KunderaMilan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in... - Edwin Morgan, 90 (born 19201920 in poetry— Opening and closing lines of The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), Scottish poet in English and Scots, appointed first "Scottish Makar" (national poet of Scotland) in 20042004 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...
, an honor which he held the rest of his life
- Ludvik Kundera
- August 27:
- George HitchcockGeorge Hitchcock (poet)George Parks Hitchcock was an American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter. He is best known for creating Kayak, a poetry magazine that he published as a one-man operation from 1964 to 1984...
, 96 (born 19141914 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford...
), AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
; editorEditorThe term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
and publisher of Kayak magazine and books. - Ravindra KelekarRavindra KelekarRavindra Kelekar was a noted Indian author who wrote primarily in the Konkani language, though he also wrote in Marathi and Hindi. A Gandhian activist, freedom fighter and a pioneer in the modern Konkani movement, he is a well known Konkani scholar, linguist, and creative thinker...
, 85 (born 19251925 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot joins the publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, leaves Lloyds bank....
), IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and activist, after short illness.
- George Hitchcock
- September 3:
- Micky BurnMicky BurnMichael Clive "Micky" Burn, MC was an English journalist, commando, writer and poet.-Early life:By his own admission, in earlier life he "had been drawn to three autocracies: German National Socialism, Communism, and the Roman Catholic Church." Burn's father was secretary and solicitor to the...
, 97 (born 19121912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
writer, journalist, World War II commando and prize-winning poet - Carmelo Arden QuinCarmelo Arden QuinThe artist Carmelo Arden Quin was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Before he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina during the early 1940s, he lived in Uruguay and Brazil. In 1946 Arden moved to Paris and returned to Argentina during the 1950s. He has been a poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and...
, 97 (born 19131913 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...
), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”
- Micky Burn
- September 27:
- Michael GizziMichael GizziMichael Gizzi was an American poet.-Life:Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi...
, 61 (born 19491949 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...
), AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and editorEditorThe term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
, author of more than 10 books of poetry - Carmelo Arden QuinCarmelo Arden QuinThe artist Carmelo Arden Quin was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Before he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina during the early 1940s, he lived in Uruguay and Brazil. In 1946 Arden moved to Paris and returned to Argentina during the 1950s. He has been a poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and...
, 97 (born 19131913 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...
), Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptor
- Michael Gizzi
- October 21:
- A. AyyappanA. AyyappanA. Ayyappan was a Malayalam poet in the modernist period. Born in a wealthy goldsmith's family, in Nemom, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, he became a non-conformist member of reading Malayali families. He had a very tragic childhood. His father, Arumukham, died when he was only one year old, perhaps...
, 61 (born 19491949 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...
), Indian poet - Kjell LandmarkKjell LandmarkKjell Landmark was a Norwegian poet and politician, born in Arendal. He was one of the founders of the party Sosialistisk Folkeparti, today's Socialist Left. He was central in the struggle against Norwegian membership of the European Economic Community, which ended in a 1972 referendum rejecting...
, 80 (born 19301930 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:*Alfred Bailey, Tao: A Ryerson Poetry Chap Book, ....
), Norwegian poet and politician
- A. Ayyappan
- October 22 – Alí ChumaceroAli ChumaceroAlí Chumacero Lora was a Mexican poet.-Career:Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. He was the joint editor of Tierra Nueva magazine from 1940-42. He edited Letras de México and El Hijo Pródigo....
, 92 (born 19181918 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...
), Mexican writer and poet - November 4:
- Viola FischerováViola FischerováViola Fischerová was a Czech poet, and translator.-Life:She was daughter of Joseph Louis Fischer; her half sister is Sylviá Fischerová.She studied Slavic studies at universities in Brno and Prague....
, 75 (born 19351935 in poetryLinks to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:* Canada -- Charles G.D...
), Czech poet - Ophelia Alcantara DimalantaOphelia Alcantara DimalantaOphelia Alcantara Dimalanta was a poet, editor, author, and teacher. One of the country's most respected writers, Dimalanta published several books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose and edited various literary anthologies. In 1999, she received Southeast Asia's highest literary honor, the S.E.A...
, 76 (born 19341934 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Barretts of Wimpole Street, a film directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett and Fredric March as Robert Browning; redone in 1957, less successfully*The University...
), Filipino poet
- Viola Fischerová
- November 5 – Adrian PăunescuAdrian PaunescuAdrian Păunescu was a Romanian poet, journalist, and politician. Though criticised for praising dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Păunescu was called "Romania's most famous poet" in a Associated Press story, quoted by the New York Times.-Life:Born in Copăceni, Bălţi County, in what is now the Republic...
, 67 (born 19431943 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke...
), Romanian author, poet and politician. - November 9 – Ektor KaknavatosEktor KaknavatosEktor Kaknavatos is the pen name of Greek poet and essayist Yorgis Kontoyorgis , who was born in Peireus, Greece. Between 1937 and 1941 he studied mathematics in Athens...
, 90 (born 19201920 in poetry— Opening and closing lines of The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), Greek poet, pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
of Yorgis Kontoyorgis. - November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de OryCarlos Edmundo de OryCarlos Edmundo de Ory was born in the Spanish city of Cadiz, was a Spanish avant-garde poet.Ory was fundamental in modernizing post-Spanish Civil War poetry by creating work that engaged major twentieth-century European avant-gardes such as Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism...
, 87 (born 19231923 in poetry-- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
), Spanish poet, leukemia. - November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, 73, (born 19371937 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Iowa Writers' Workshop founded by Paul Engle at the University of Iowa...
), SovietSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, short storyShort storyA short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
writer and translator. - December 23 – Janine Pommy VegaJanine Pommy VegaJanine Pommy Vega was an American poet associated with the Beats.Vega grew up in Union City, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, she travelled to Manhattan to become involved in the Beat scene there.In 1962, Vega moved to Europe with her husband, painter...
, 68, (born 19421942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Oppen forces his induction into the U.S. Army....
) American Beat GenerationBeat generationThe Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...
poet.
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- List of poetry awards
- The Poetry Society of Virginia official website ~ Student Poetry Contest List of Winners & Awards